Fair Play is an
exhibition of works by 14 artists exploring games, toys and the activity of
playing. Games as ritual, metaphor and symbol. Games about wealth and class
and battles for territory. Games of illusion, trickery and fantasy. Solitary
or team effort, communal competition, initiation rite and endurance test.

The question of who is in control of
the image is an issue in the work of Bettina von Zwehl. She will be
showing a diptych from the series An Anatomy of Control that consists of
seven pairs of photographs of children ranging from the ages of two to ten.
Using a long cable release, each child has completed the task of taking his
or her own photograph in a studio set-up contrived by the artist.

Ann Jones investigates
the rituals performed around the preparation and consumption of food. In her
video work Pointless Challenges, Jones re-enacts competitions
half-remembered from childhood, like eating doughnuts without licking ones
lips. Challenges tainting essentially pleasurable activities with discomfort
and introducing the need for concentration on the process of eating rather
than allowing oneself to savour taste or sensation.

With Fresh Air, a
table-tennis table in the shape of Battersea Park, Marion Coutts
transforms the notion of a shared, public space designed for recreation and
leisure. In
Decalogue, a set of
ten skittles, each inscribed with one of the commandments, Coutts wittily
reminds us of the fragility of law and order by reducing an ethical and
moral code to a playful challenge.

Simon Moretti's groupings of
small card and paper sculptures parody Modernist sculpture. They are made
using a cut out and slot in system and invite interaction despite their
apparent fragility. The sculptures swarm in small groups on the floor, the
mantle piece and the furniture like 3D drawings coming to life.

Sheep Count is a new
series of subtly manipulated photographs by Nicky Coutts. The work
was inspired by a relative who believes he is able to arrange sheep from a
distance, lining them up and moving them around as he pleases each night
before sleeping.

Anna Fox and
Alison Goldfrapp have collaborated to produce the series
Country Girls. Goldfrapp & Fox will show two images from the series documenting
performances which tread a fine line between horror and sensation.

In Sex, Lies and
Binary Logic, Michael Guida & Mark Winstanley have created an interactive
work, which revolves around the notion of a lie-detector test. The work
engages with issues of power and control and the evolving relationship
between man and machine.